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Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Lara faces many obstacles in her attempts to rescue Dannsair from the Baron of Athenry.
4) Hearts
Author
Series
Brides for all seasons volume 4
Publisher
Sonnet Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
11) Josefina's song
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, when ten-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
12) The Old African
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of other slaves and eventually leads them back to Africa.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, little Sap, a young girl from the rice fields of Cambodia, wins a coveted place in the royal dance troupe and learns the steps so well that she is noticed by the famous artist Auguste Rodin, who rewards her with a special prize. A foreword and an author's note give additional information about the history of Cambodia, Khmer dance, and August Rodin.
15) Bone dry
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s, Dr. Asa B. Cornwall, a phrenologist, and his fourteen-year-old assistant, Matthew Morrissey, travel from Paris to Northern Africa to seek the missing skull of Alexander the Great.
16) Mirror image
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of identical twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson and their coming of age at the turn of the century.
17) Again, Josefina!
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
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